Dan Sperber - Modularity and relevance as psychological factors of cultural attraction (2009-07-16, CEA)
Dan Sperber: Modularity and relevance as psychological factors of cultural attraction
Central European University
Jul 16, 2009
Culture and Cognition
International Summer University
July 4 - 12, 2007
Central European University, Budapest
Chapters (auto-generated):
00:00 - Intro
03:00 - The cooperative principle
05:00 - The cognitive process
06:40 - Cognitive efficiency
07:50 - Cognitive work
09:00 - Simple cognitive systems
12:40 - Attention bottleneck
15:35 - Relevance
18:40 - Cognitive effects
21:10 - Interest
24:35 - Property of input
28:25 - Value Relevance
39:30 - Pandemonium competition
43:52 - Emotional Balance
45:22 - Emotions and tension
53:04 - Interpretation
Note from Quad Romb:
Dan Sperber’s paper “Modularity and Relevance - How Can a Massively Modular Mind Be Flexible and Context-Sensitive?“, 2005
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